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"Air passengers exposed to extremely high levels of ultrafine particle pollution, study finds"
#Aviation #Aeroplanes #Airplanes

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This New Superwood Is as Strong as Steel and 6 Times Lighter https://gizmodo.com/this-new-superwood-is-as-strong-as-steel-and-6-times-lighter…

This New Superwood Is as Strong as Steel and 6 Times Lighter
A university spinoff company has commercialized exceptionally tough wood. Our buildings and airplanes might one day be built from it.

I love airplanes 😍

14-year old Miles Wu just won $25,000 for a research project based on an origami fold called "Miura-ori", which is known for collapsing and expanding with precision.
"I've been folding origami as a hobby for more than six years, mostly of animals or insects," Wu told Business Insider.
"Recently I've been designing my own origami, too."
"A problem with current deployable structures and emergency structures is, for example,
ten…

14-Year-Old Wins Prize For Origami That Can Hold 10,000 Times Its Own Weight
While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief.

Proton: an incredible feat of software engineering; a Rube Goldberg machine that brought Windows gaming to Linux seemingly overnight after decades of Windows domination.
Copilot: a black box inflationary doodad riding the Nvidia wings after the crypto bubble; airplanes not falling from sky only because traffic control probably doesn't have it installed on critical hardware.

“In August 2024, SubwayTakes was invited to interview Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. During Rahma's interview of Harris, Harris surprised Rahma when she diverted from the pre-approved take against removing shoes on airplanes to a "Bacon is a spice" take. This take offended Rahma's Muslim beliefs, causing Rahma to ask to do the pre-approved take. But, after being advised by a staffer, Harris moved to a pro-anchovies-on-pizza take. This caused Rahma to quickly end the video. Aft…

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Jefferson Airplane:
🎵 White Rabbit
#NowPlaying #JeffersonAirplane
https://atavismo.bandcamp.com/track/jefferson-airplanes-white-rabbit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4vpeKl0vMGdAXpZiQB2Dtd

To my mind the following article suggests that the present day "AI" approach is very wrong.
Why? Because biological RI (Real Intelligence) out performs CI (Computer Intelligence) by orders of magnitude on many dimensions: power required (perhaps 20 to 50 watts for the human brain), weight, size, cooling, and ability to innovate in new ways.
Our present digital computer approach to intelligence seems about as apt as trying to power passenger airplanes using onboard coal…

OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Cloud Computing Deal With Amazon
After signing agreements to use computing power from Nvidia, AMD and Oracle, OpenAI is partnering with the world’s largest cloud computing company.

Judge James E. Boasberg said he wants to hear from former Justice Dept. attorney Erez Reuveni
in an inquiry over whether Trump administration officials should be referred for prosecution
for disobeying a court order that temporarily barred two airplanes carrying Venezuelan detainees from proceeding to El Salvador.

In a confrontation between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary,
revived after a months-long delay for appeals,
Chief U.S. District Jud…

Judge calls for Justice Dept. whistleblower to testify in migrant planes case
Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of the District of Columbia has scheduled the former Justice Department attorney to appear in court on Dec. 15.